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Hi! I'm 22, I live in the UK and I've been posting random stuff since 2015! Have a nice day :)

[miamaimania]

"Sleeping Beauty" visual development by Eyvind Earle

[tvguts]

something about Toy Story toys is so strange to me. versions of animated characters based on real world toys, turned back into toys that are slightly different than the actual toys. slinky dog with a rubber spiral instead of a classic metal slinky. the porcelain bo peep and cloth woody turned into jointed plastic action figures. when toy story 4 came out and i saw a $30 talking action figure of forky, a character made out of a spork and a pipe cleaner, i stood in the walmart toy aisle staring at it like cameron from ferris bueller's day off staring at that painting in the art museum

[lastoneout]

You guys need to recognize that the push to treat ace and aro discourse as stupid infighting that never left tumblr is indeed a manifestation of the continued erasure and devaluing of asexuality, aromanticism, and and ace and aro lives in an effort to pretend that the people who did it weren't part of a reactionary hate movement that completely decimated two entire marginalized communities both on and offline.

Like I try to be nice about this but I have seen SO many fucking people being like "lol yeah ace/aro discourse was one thing" and that is deliberate erasure of real and important queer history in service of dodging blame on the parties that did this who, for the most part, never fucking apologized or owned up to it, or, in the case of a few blogs I still see going around, clearly still stand by all of it and just hope you don't point that out, and ofc, no one ever fucking does.

Stop downplaying the absolute fucking devastation the queer community did to ace and aro people and our communities. If owning it makes you uncomfortable, good, go make it right, and start by not fucking lying about what happened, thanks.

[lastoneout]

Everyone will think I'm crazy, but I cannot stress that an atrocity was done to ace and aro people, and we never got so much as a fucking apology.

[lastoneout]

I do want to say if you got caught up in this I don't hate you, especially if you learned and changed, because like most reactionary hate movements ace/aro discourse was always presented as righteous and fun, and also it was EVERYWHERE and the people stirring shit were very well articulated. A lot of us were teenagers joining queer spaces for the first time ever and we wanted to belong and sometimes that means hating who the people who already belong tell you to hate. I get why people fell for it, I came close a few times myself when I was at my lowest and most desperate to feel like I belonged again. I get it.

I can't offer forgiveness or absolution to everyone, but you don't need me to forgive you to forgive yourself and move on, and I do think most of the people who got caught up in it have more than earned moving on.

However, what I want is for everyone to stop downplaying it. Don't call it stupid infighting, don't go "ace stuff was one thing but this with trans men is too far" don't claim it didn't leave tumblr or the internet, own how bad it was. If you were there you know, and your history is valuable, so even when it sucks please be honest about what happened. This part of queer history should not be forgotten, and especially not for the people who never really changed and have an interest in making sure everyone thinks this was just some silly infighting.

That's what I ask, do right by us, don't let us be erased again.

Especially because when you forget, when you downplay it, you downplay what's happened with truscum shit, with biphobia, and now with trans masc exclusion. You downplay it and you disguise that it's the same people saying the same things about a new group. I found out about the rise in trans man/masc exclusion because I saw someone saying that trans men are collateral damage secondary to the real targets of transphobia, trans women, and I immediately knew the person saying it was a shithead I should NEVER trust because that is exactly what they said about bi and ace and aro people. Word for word.

You do those who were hurt a disservice when you downplay what happened, but you also make our spaces less safe because if we pretend what happened didn't we can't stop it when it starts again.

And it always starts again.

[lastoneout]

Reblogging again after seeing YET ANOTHER person say ace/aro discourse wasn't mainstream and didn't leave the internet. People got kicked out of irl queer spaces behind this, stop fucking lying about what happened. At this point more someone pushes the "ace/aro discourse was bad but not mainstream/offline/as bad as what's happening now with [xyz group]" the more I think you have a vested interest in making it out to be not a big deal and that doesn't say anything good about you.

Like y'all claim to be against oppression olympics, but you're still engaging with it every single time you say anything even remotely like "ace/aro discourse was really bad but nothing as serious as what's happening now" and I'm sick of pretending it's not oppression olympics and also not a manifestation of the continued violence against ace and aro people. If the only way you're going to talk about what happened is through downplaying our suffering and/or spreading misinformation about it, do me and every other aro and ace person a favor and stop fucking talking about us.

[tlirsgender]

"You know what's harder than Getting Better? Living Like That" is just the thesis for my whole shit going on right now honestly. You know what's harder than doing my physical therapy? Hurting All The Time. You know what's harder than addressing my gender dysphoria? Hurting All The Time

[tlirsgender]

I'm Doing The Hard Thing and it's *easier* than how I was living before. If you make yourself feel better you will have more energy to spend on Getting Better. Nice inch nails - the upward spiral. Crawl out of your grave Thursday

[growingsucculents]

Legs

[sweetchimera-art]

escape

[sacrificethemtothesquid]

[chryza]

Debating silently showing this to one of the flight attendants while boarding

[chryza]

I SHOWED IT TO MY FLIGHT ATTENDANT WHEN HE GAVE ME MY COOKIES AND HE LAUGHED SO HARD HE TOOK MY PHONE TO SHOW IT TO THE OTHER FLIGHT ATTENDANT

[bippysaurus-rex]

I don’t know how you got a good grade in being a passenger on an airline but that’s a totally normal thing to achieve and I’m not seething with jealousy at all.

[hjarta-deactivated20260124]

just learned that magnolias are so old that they’re pollinated by beetles because they existed before bees

[scienceoftheidiot]

They existed *before beetles*

[somethingaboutsomethingelse]

[spacedandelions]

Why is this sad? Why am I sad?

[ignescent]

https://xkcd.com/1259/

Bee Orchid

[sepdet]

This is how I feel about Joshua Trees. They and avocado trees produce fruit meant to be eaten and dispersed by giant ground sloths. Without them, the Joshua Trees' range has shrunk by 90%.

(my own photos)

Not only they, but the entire Mojave ecosystem is still struggling to adapt since the loss of ground sloth dung. their chief fertilizer.

Many, many trees and plants in the Americas have widely-spaced, extremely long thorns that do nothing to discourage deer eating their leaves, but would've penetrated the fur of ground sloths and mammoths. Likewise, if you've observed a tree that drops baseball or softball-sized fruit which lies on the ground and rots, like Osage Oranges, which were great for playing catch at my school, chances are they were ground sloth or mammoth chow.

You can read about various orphaned plants and trees missing their megafauna in this poignant post:

The Trees That Miss The Mammoths - American Forests

Trees that once depended on animals like the wooly mammoth for survival have managed to adapt and survive in the modern world.



[modernvintage]

First quote from the linked article. Found it poetic.

[creacher-art]

Working in genomics has been beautiful because while I see ghosts, I also see them for who they likely were. Organisms so ancient, struggling to maintain their place in a world not meant for them.

In the grand scheme of things, the time of mammoths and ground sloths wasn’t that long ago. It’s incredibly recent. It sucks knowing that so many species are *organically* on their way out, and then anthropogenic climate change has come to speed up the process.

Also: Gingko biloba is the only species left in the order of Gingkoales. There are no other Gingkos, but we see their fossils and imprints. They appeared over 290 million years ago.

[everydaylouie]

good and evil

[batteredblueberry]

[ID: stylized art of a cat playing with a wine glass that looks like it's about to fall over. Next to the cat's head fly a tiny devil cat and a tiny angel cat. End ID]

[bebs-art-gallery]

Albert Square, Manchester (1910) by Adolphe Valette | Contemporary Art (2015) by Emily Allchurch

[bread-making-vikings]

the top is an original, from 1910, the bottom is a new version painted in 2015

[spacedouterri]

THE BOTTOM IS A PAINTING????

[open-sketchbook]

also does a really good job reminding the view just how much air quality has improved since we stopped burning coal in every building lol

[ihaveapproximately4bones]

[i-draws-dinosaurs]

Dolphins aren't evil spawn of satan, stingrays aren't monsters just because one of them happened to kill Steve Irwin, mola aren't useless barely-alive hunks of flesh

[headspace-hotel]

nothing in nature is useless, evil, or straightforward

[pukicho]

I'm sorry all, I just learned how to hand paint my 3D models. It's officially over for all of you, I'm sorry.

[zomboidz]

pukicho i was not familiar with your game

[pukicho]

[chic-beyond-the-wall]

More medieval dyes for y'all!

[horsefigureoftheday]

To those of you who aren't used to looking at horses and can't tell good conformation from bad conformation, all you need to know is that Friesian horses look like this compared to other horses

[horsefigureoftheday]

Normal horse:

Some kind of weird club-footed swan-necked long-backed serpent:

[honoratacarnage]

not to mention the amount of inbreeding needed to quickly “weed out" any other horse color and dilution other than jet black

to non horse people: jet black is actually a pretty hard to get color in horses because there's so many dilutions, patterns and mixes that can influence a horse's coat.

a pure jet black is likely a horse that has every single alele (piece of gene) turned recessive to the max. i'm talking about a purebred friesian loosing its pedigree because it has a white spot on its nose

and you can't do that fast and reliably (because breeders HATE any gene odds other than a perfect 100%) without turning a horse's family tree into a family wreath so combine the insane conformation expectations with even more strict color exclusivity and u get a inbreed overpriced monster Friesian.

honestly i'd love to see the Friesian conformation in any other colors like imagine a pangaré chestnut Friesian?

[horsefigureoftheday]

Chestnut Friesians do exist, but iirc none of their offspring can be registered as Friesians

Still inbred as hell

[horsefigureoftheday]

A beautiful family wreath

[kadzhi]

one good thing about december on this hellsite is that this gif will be making its rounds again

[catchymemes]

These circles are stationary

[jadagul]

Thanks I hate it.

[argumate]

*sigh* all power to hypnotoad.

[violetfractal]

Checked with a ruler and took screenshots - the circles are completely stationary. The effect is also not generated by the arrows, rather by the oscillating color.

The rings have 1px wide borders that oscillate out of phase with their interiors, and your eyes perceive the phase shifted borders as moving edges. It’s really neat, our optic nerves have specific hardware for edge detection and this gif fools it!

Also if I look away from the gif and stare at a spot, the gif looks really trippy in my peripheral vision. A++

[ngkiscool]

My brain hurts.

[expressions-of-nature]

Morning Mood by Judith Noack

[abbaswift]

not to be a number nerd on main but 2025 (45^2) will be the only square year most of us ever experience. the last one was 1936 and the next one will be 2116

[ace-misplaced]

i very much will be a number nerd on main and the 27th of September will be extra special...

[yourfavvgal]

okay eva just wanted to say THIS IS SO COOL???

[violet-yimlat]

Happy square

[stevehatch]

HAPPY SQUARE!!!!